![]() Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 5th 1972, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Robert John peaked at #3 (for 3 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart it had entered the chart on December 26th, 1971 at position #89 and spent 17 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 7 of those 17 weeks it was on the Top 10).Peter from Coventry, United KingdomVery good song.Anyway, "Lion" has a long history with many performers. So I went home with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "The Twist." As the months went by, I didn't hear much from The Tokens again, but Chubby Checker kept having hits. But my friends were at the record store too buying copies of Chubby Checker's re-release of his 1960 #1 mega-hit, "The Twist." It too was all over the radio stations by that time. I went out & bought another copy at the record store. Then my little brother accidentally broke it. At first, I thought it was so weird, but the beat was so good that I had to have the record. Randy from Fayettevile, ArYep, I bought this single in late 1961 as it was topping the charts.Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 1st 1972 Robert John performed "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.Īt the time the song was at #5 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart the month before on March 5th it peaked at #3 for three weeks.24th, 1973, Cross Country performed "In the Midnight Hour" on the Dick Clark produced ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'Where The Action Is'. * Exactly forty-four years prior to the day of Mr. He continued performing with the Tokens until his death. ![]() He also recorded with Phil and Jay Siegel of the Tokens as Cross Country*, reaching #30 in 1973 with "In The Midnight Hour". He co-wrote "Tonight I Fell In Love" (#15 in 1961) and "I Hear Trumpets Blow" (#30 in 1966). He and brother Phil joined the second incarnation of the Tokens in 1960 when Mitch was only 13. Mitch will always be remembered for the falsetto on the group's "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (#1 in 1961). Mitch Margo, high tenor voice of the Tokens died in his sleep Friday (November 24th, 2017) at the age of 70. Jay Siegel from New York Jay Siegel was the Falsetto lead singer on The Lion Sleeps Tonight & all of The Tokens Hits. ![]()
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